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PACKAGE Filed 001'.. 22. 1958 JACK USS United 'States Patent O 3,001,647 PACKAGE Jack Liss, Chicago, lll. Filed Oct. 22, 1958, Ser. No. 768,929 3 Claims. (Cl. 20G-65) The present invention relates to packages, and it more particularly relates to packages for protecting somewhat fraugible articles such as glass jars or bottles.

Many products such as cosmetics are often times distributed in glass jars or bottles, and in order to prevent breakage during shipment and, in addition, to facilitate storage, it is customary to either individually box these items or to group them in cartons. Such modes of packaging are objectionable for at least two reasons, one being that the product is hidden from the purchaser by the package and the other being that the cost of the package is too high in relation to the overall cost of the product.

Therefore, a principal object of the present invention is to provied a new and improved package.

3,001,647 Patented Sept. 26, 1961 Fice the difference between the radius of the surface 12 at the location of the apertures 16 and 17 and the maximum radius of the surface 12 which, in the bottles 11, is located directlyV below the caps 13. The scores 22 are spaced from the scores 21 by a distance substantially equal to the height of the bottles 11 above the apertures 16 and 17, and the distance between the scores 22 and 23 is substantially equal to the maximum diameter of the bottles 11. The scores 23 are spaced from the marginal ends 25 of the board 14 by a distance which is slightly less than the height of the bottles 11 Yabove the apertures Another object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved packageY for somewhat frangible articles such as jars and bottles.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a package for jars, bottles or the like, which is light in weight, which is easily assembled and disassembled, and which facilitates identification of the product.

Briey, the above and further objects are realized in accordance with the present invention by providing a package which employs but a single piece of paperboard or the like for both supporting and spacing a plurality of articles. The board partially encloses the articles to protect them from damage but it also leaves them sufciently exposed to permit visual identification thereof.

Ihe invention both as to its organization and method of operation, together with further objects and advantages thereof, will best be understood by reference to the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

FIG. 1 is an isometric 4view showing the package of the present invention partially formed; and

FIG. 2 is a side elevational view, partly in section, of the completed package of FIG. l.

Referring now to the drawings, there is shown a package 10 for enclosing six bottles 11 respectively having downwardly converging sides 12 and caps 13. A rectangular, relatively rigid container board 14, which may be formed of any suitable material such, for example, as two-ply corrugated paperboard, is provided near the center thereof with a pair of transverse rows of apertures 16 and 17. The bottles 1'1 are circular in cross section and the apertures 16 and 17 are also circular having a diameter which is intermediate the maximum and minimum outside diameters of the converging surface 12 of the bottles 11. Consequently, when the bottles 11 are placed in the apertures 16 and 17, as shown in the drawings, they are supported by the board 14 and depend partially through the apertures 16 and 17. The apertures 16 and 17 inthe respective rows are spaced apart by a sucient distance to prevent the bottles 11 from contacu'ng one another, and the spacing between the rows 16 and 17 is such that the minimum distance between the bottles 11 in adjacent rows is slightly greater than twice the thickness of the board 1'4.

In order to facilitate folding of the longitudinal ends of the board 14 over the bottles 11, three pairs of parallel scores 21, 22, and 23 are provided in the upper surface of the board 14 between the apertures 16 and 17 and the longitudinal ends 25 and of the board 14. The scores 21 are spaced from the adjacent ones of the apertures 16 and 17 by a distance which is substantially equal to 16 and 17. Y

In packaging the bottles 11 within the package 10, the bottoms of the bottles are inserted into the apertures 16 and 17 while the board y14 is extended, and thereafter the ends 25 of the board 14 are folded toward one another over the tops of the two rows of bottles 11 into engagement with one anotherrso that the bottom face portions of the boardV 14 between Vthe folds 23 and the marginal 'ends 25 abut against one another between the bottles 11 in the adjacent rows. Even though the natural tendency is for the board 14 to snap back to its unfolded position since the bottom surface thereof is not scored, inasmuch as the end portions of the board 14 between the marginal ends 25 and the scores 23 lie at against one another, there is sucient friction between the two to prevent the package from spuriously opening when the package 10 is subjected to rough handling.

It may thus be seen that the package 10 is extremely simple and inexpensive and yet serves to prevent the bottles 11 from contacting one another during shipment as Well as from contacting the bottles in similar packages. Moreover, the bottles 11 may be directly labeled or may include labels which are attached to the neck portions thereof, and since the ends of the package are open, the package being essentially in the form of two tubes having apertured bottoms in which the bottles 11 are supported, the end bottles are readily visible and, therefore, the contents of the package 10 are easily identified. In addition, the bottoms of the bottles 11 are exposed so that the sales price of the goods may be stamped or otherwise imprinted thereon without removing the bottles from the package, thus providing a substantial economy of labor.

While a particular embodiment of the invention has been shown, it will be understood, of course, that the invention is not limited thereto, since many modilications may be made, and it is, therefore, contemplated by the appended claims to cover any such modifications as fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.

What is claimed as new and is desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States is:

l. Packaged goods comprising a plurality of articles which converge toward the bottom, and a containerV formed of an elongated rigid board having a plurality of apertures provided therein, said apertures being arranged in two adjacent parallel rows extending perpendicularly to the principal longitudinal axis of said board, said apertures having respective cross sections corresponding in size and shape to intermediately disposed cross sections along the converging sides of said articles, said articles extending partially through said apertures and supported by said board only by wedging of said intermediately disposed cross sections in said apertures, said board being folded over the tops of said articles with the end portions of the board lying face-to-face between said rows in the completed package and with the apertured portion forming the bottom of 'the container.

2. Packaged goods according to claim l above wherein said articles are generally cylindrical bottles.

3. Packaged goods comprising a plurality of generally cylindrical bottles which converge toward the bottoms thereof, a container formed of a relatively stiff `board having therein a plurality of apertures arranged in two adjacent rows, said apertures corresponding in cross section Yto the respective cross sections of said bottles at locations between the tops and bottoms thereof, `said bottles beingpositioned in said apertures and supported only by the wedging of said bottles along their converging sides with the edges of Vsaid board forming said Vapertures, said bottles being spaced apart by said aperture the spacing between said rows being such that the minimum distance between :the bottles in adjacent rows is slightly greater than twice the thickness of said board, the inner surface of said board being provided with Ia iirst pair ,of scores lying parallel to'said rows and respectively disposed between said rows and the ends of said board and being respectively displaced from the apertures in the adjacent rows by a distance equal to the corresponding distance between the adjacent edges of said Y bottle at the location of said apertures and the edges of said bottles at the loction of maximum cross sectionalY dimension in the longitudinal direction of said board, a second pair of scores respectively provided in the Upper surface of said board between said rst scores and the longitudinal ends of said board, said second scores being spaced from said irst scores by a distance equal to the distance between the tops of said bottles and points `thereon disposed substantially at the upper surface of .third .pair of scores respectively providedin the upper surface of said board between the second scores and the longitudinal ends of said board, said third scores being spaced from said second scoresgby a distance substantially equal to the maximum Width offsaid bottles in the direction'longitudinal to said board, and said third scores being spaced from the longitudinalrendsrof said board by a distance whichis no greater than the distance between said iirst and second scores, said lboard being folded over said bottles along said scores with the end portions thereof interposed between said rows of said bottles to lock said board in an enclosing condition and also to provide a at top on which similar Ypackaged goods may be stacked. Y

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